Like a bad magician, I am giving away one of my tricks with this photo.
I like to think that some of you readers assume I just happen to know every plant that exists (or a lot of them, at least). But that's the great thing about botanical gardens - they have tags. And with digital cameras, you can take as many photos as you want and not worry about wasting film! So I have countless pics like this one - of a plant in question and it's accompanying tag.
However, hopefully regular readers to PC and NYPAOS would recognize a bromeliad when they saw one. I feel like I'm always posting about them, though that's hardly the case. This specimen, also called imperial Vriesea, was growing at the Waimea Valley Botanical Garden, a fantastic botanical garden I mentioned just last week as well.
Disappointingly, these specimens were just beginning to flower. The inflorescences (pollinated by bats, usually) reach heights as high as 3 meters.
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